The following are Idol-related odds and ends that happened this week: >Syesha Mercado performed with her co-stars of the national tour of the musical Dreamgirls on Wednesday on The Wendy Williams ... a clip of the appearance below: The tour kicks off at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, N.Y., tomorrow night, where it will run until Sun., Dec. 6. It will close ...

... ! Miss Tori pausing to watch the waves. Wanna see what's on the other side of the dog door? We finally let mom have one good shot of us after a dozen pics of us looking the other way, ha-roo roo roo! Looks like its gonna be a sunny day today. That means a nice long walk! Can we go soon, mom? What do woo pups & kitties plan to do this weekend?! a-roos & woos, jack n' tori

... knits I've gathered include a well dressed bunny, oh, balls!, and bunny nuggets, which are particularly intriguing to me because you can personalize the bunnies. All of these patterns should let me use stash I already have, and leftover odds and ends of yarns tucked away. Also thinking of knitting economy, I've been eying my gauge ...

This morning I arrived, slightly shaking but trying to keep my cool, at the School Board building for my Big Interview. I cannot stress how important this Interview was. For every time I blogged about worrying about getting a job -- well, ALL OF IT boils down to THIS interview. This is for a) the school board of my choice, because b) the only school board in which I have contacts that can even ...

1. Let's not candy-coat last night's results: this was a disaster for Democrats, a repudiation of the Far Left crowd mismanaging the Congress, and a direct rebuke of President Obama. 2. The Dems can spin the result of NY-23, where the Democrat won that special Congressional election, but the truth is that race was always a hot mess, and when you add together Conservative Doug Hoffman' ...

Over the past couple of weeks, I've been busy with digging up various sites (for several different purposes)--primary among the members of InterAction and AERDO; therefore, I haven't had any time to really try and finalize the new, Widgetbox-based widgets that would be used to replace what had been the batch of RSS feeds of news from Africa.  Also, it looks like Technorati may have ...